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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 24, 2006
Filed:
Jan. 30, 2004
Applicants:
Kent Biggs, Tomball, TX (US);
Juan Ignacio Martinez, Tomball, TX (US);
Scott Mark Wiginton, Tomball, TX (US);
Inventors:
Kent Biggs, Tomball, TX (US);
Juan Ignacio Martinez, Tomball, TX (US);
Scott Mark Wiginton, Tomball, TX (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, I.P., Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A preferred embodiment of the invention enables I/O port POST codes to be accessed via a universal serial bus ('USB') port of the computer system: BIOS writes an I/O port POST code to a USB port. A device coupled to the USB port reads the I/O port POST code and presents the code on a display.